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Added on the 10/04/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
The annual meeting of global business and political leaders officially opens in Davos on Monday. More than a hundred protesters gathered in a snowy Davos square chanted, "change your diet for the climate, eat the rich", while some booed oil firms cited during a speech.
German police officers begin removing climate activists perched precariously on high structures after they embarked on an operation to evacuate a protest camp that has become a symbol of resistance against fossil fuels. Luetzerath, a village in North Rhine-Westphalia state, has been turned over to around 2,000 anti-coal activists who are trying to prevent the site from being dug up for coal. IMAGES
In Paris climate activists spray-painted the Ministry of Ecology in the latest protest attack on government buildings over what they see as a lack of action on the environment
Climate activists from the group 'Letzte Generation Österreich' (Last Generation Austria) pour black liquid over Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's masterpiece "Death and Life" at Vienna's Leopold Museum. "Restorers are working to determine whether the painting, protected by glass, has been damaged" said museum spokesman Klaus Pokorny.
Demonstrators take to the streets to demand an end to fossil fuel funding at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre in Egypt, where this year's COP27 climate conference is taking place.